Outside the window, birds chirped, and the zither rolled over, suddenly realizing that the sun was hanging high outside. She hurriedly sat up, went downstairs while putting on her clothes, walked to the staircase and looked out, Wang Chucui had already moved the tofu brain outside, and was greeting the guests and saying that only one bucket was made today, and it was first served.

I didn't expect that after getting up early for so many years, I would have to get up so late. Liu Zheng went upstairs to change clothes, pulled his hair casually, went downstairs to the yard to fetch water and wash, and washed his clothes by the way. After cleaning up, she went over to help Wang Chucui beat tofu brains, and asked complainingly, "Why don't you call me up?" ”

"Seeing that you sleep so soundly, how can grandma bear it." Wang Chucui poked her soft cheeks, "I'm still sleepy, if I'm still sleepy, go up and sleep for a while, I'm going to sell out anyway." ”

Liu Zheng rubbed his eyes: "If you don't sleep, you won't be able to sleep at noon and night." I want to go to Gufu today, and I have something I want to ask Mr. Luo. ”

"Okay, don't worry, I'll make you some snacks in a while, your Mr. Luo loves to eat the egg yolk shortbread I made, make more this time."

"Well, the last time I brought not enough for Mr. Luo to eat."

"If only she loved it." Wang Chucui smiled and narrowed his eyes.

After selling the tofu, Liu Zheng sat in front of the shop and calculated the accounts for a while, and was stunned for a while. Today, Song Yan still did not come.

Think about it...... She said all the same things, but anyone who had a little self-esteem would not come again. Liu Zheng couldn't help but sigh as soon as he thought of it, brushed his hair and began to pack the things he was going to take to Gu's mansion.

In the afternoon, Liu Zheng took the flower paper and smoothly entered the Gu Mansion, the housekeeper's mother-in-law led her into the courtyard, Luo Jingqiu was waiting in the pavilion in the morning, and immediately got up to greet her as soon as she saw her. Liu Zheng saluted: "Good afternoon, Mr. Luo." ”

"Good afternoon, good afternoon, how is Granny Wang's health?"

"The medicine has been stopped for a long time, nothing matters, I'm healthy. Sir, this is a dim sum made by grandma, you can try it. ”

After a greeting, Liu Zheng told him about his recent contact with Song Yan, and the two walked along the corridor together, and there were several red-crowned cranes on the grass outside the corridor flapping their wings leisurely.

"It turns out that he is pleased with you...... No wonder I asked someone to check before, but I didn't find out what he had to do with Xijie Lane, and you Gu Uncle still wondered if it would be your incident back then that attracted attention, so he hurriedly asked someone to go to Suzhou Mansion to check the whole thing, and the person sent there has not come back yet. ”

At the mention of this, Liu Zheng silently lowered his eyes: "I have always troubled you and my master over the years, and I really can't help it." ”

Luo Jingqiu touched her hair lovingly: "You are no different from Xunzhen in me, they are both my daughters, why bother and not bother?" This girl doesn't know where she is staying with her and your master, saying that she will enter Beijing this month, and she will enter July soon, and there is no trace yet. said that he missed me, but I didn't think about it at all! Where can I compare to you, no matter where I am, I will remember to hand me a letter and a note. ”

Liu Zheng smiled: "She's still so playful." Is Senior Brother Gu not coming back this year? ”

"You don't know him yet? I want to be a ranger like your master, and I think about eliminating violence and peace all day long, how can the capital tolerate him. The last letter I wrote back was two months ago, saying that I would stay in Huguang to suppress bandits. Alas, the man is not staying, let him go. ”

The two laughed for a while and sat down to drink tea together. Luo Jingqiu took out the treasured Jiangnan Fengtuan Sparrow Tongue Bud Tea and ordered someone to make it, and Liu Zheng opened the food box prepared for her by Wang Chucui and took out a few exquisite snacks. After chatting for a while, Liu Zheng asked himself what kind of gift was appropriate for Song Yan.

Luo Jingqiu also sensed something unusual from her question, and asked with a smile: "You and him have come to this point?" ”

Liu Zheng was stunned, and then smiled: "It's just a salute, sir." And I do like that pot of flowers, after all, I saved it myself. ”

Liu Zheng hesitated to treat Song Yan's injuries that day, and yesterday she told him what she said to him and asked her own questions: "It stands to reason that he has a noble status and strong martial arts, and it is difficult for three or five people to get close to him, how could he suffer such a serious whiplash?" Is it fined at home? It's too harsh...... He doesn't look like a man who makes big mistakes. ”

Luo Jingqiu nodded and said with emotion: "This thing sounds incredible, but when it is placed on these big clans, it feels ordinary." What's even more unbelievable is that you can't even think of it. I heard that there was a lot of commotion in the Guogong Mansion last night, and some people saw a lot of torches lit inside, whether it was catching thieves or what happened, no one knows. When I heard you say that, I remembered something...... Actually, you must have met when you were kids. ”

Liu Zheng was slightly shocked: "Me and him? In the past ten years, I have not been in Yingtianfu or Suzhou Mansion, how could I have met him? ”

"Do you still remember the spring of the second year of your grandfather's death, when you came to live in Wujiang County?"

"Of course I remember, it was the first time I stayed at my husband's house, and I studied and practiced martial arts with Senior Brother Gu and Xunzhen every day, and when I was free, I climbed trees and rockeries to play slingshots, and I also picked mulberries and caught rabbits...... I've never had that much fun and I'll never forget it in my life. ”

Luo Jingqiu also recalled the past because of her words, and when she looked at her again, she was completely different from when they first met, and she couldn't help but feel relieved. Today's Liu Zheng is clean and bright, independent and gentle, with the most ordinary and rare enthusiasm for life, which is completely different from the indifferent little girl eleven years ago.

Luo Jingqiu waved away the servant, and then said softly: "Your master is a distant relative of Gu Xuan, you know this." At that time, Zhang He had just become Song Yan's teacher, and Song Yan begged him for one thing, saying that he would treat his mother. How noble is the Dingguo Mansion, and what kind of imperial doctor can't be invited? Later, he asked many times before he found out that it was ...... Madness. ”

Liu Zheng's mind was full of emotion, and he secretly clenched the cup.

Luo Jingqiu continued: "It's also a coincidence, it just so happens that there is a famous doctor in Wujiang County who can treat heart diseases, and after many arrangements, the Guogong Mansion decided to take Mrs. Hou to Wujiang County for diagnosis and treatment. For a long time, the Guogong Mansion has said to the public that Mrs. Hou is bedridden after dystocia and cannot see the wind, so she can only stay in the back house and cannot see guests. If it weren't for the fact that the Gu family entrusted your master to secretly deal with this matter that year, we would not have heard this rumor...... That year, Dingguo Hou and Xiao Shizi temporarily lived in our county government for a day or two, and I don't know what the result was, anyway, they didn't stay in Wujiang County for too long and went back. ”

A vague impression appeared in Liu Zheng's mind: "They lived in the wing room in the backyard of the county government at that time? Both the gentleman and the master did not allow us to come close even a step, so as not to disturb the nobles. Senior Brother Gu couldn't stay idle, and dragged me and Xunzhen to climb the wall, wanting to see what the nobles who came from the capital looked like, but as a result, we were too small at that time, and we couldn't ride on the wall steadily...... There was a fierce military master standing in the courtyard, and when he opened his mouth and roared, we were so frightened that we fell off the wall. Afterwards, Mr. punished us for copying the book, and each of us copied the thousand-character text fifteen times, and it took half a month for our hands to be sore. ”

"At that time, the military master was Feng Ce's uncle, Liu Qianhu, who had made meritorious contributions on the battlefield with the old Dingguo Gong. Feng Ce is the most outstanding of their juniors, he looks very similar to Liu Qianhu, and he was selected by Old Madam Qin to be Xiao Shizi's bodyguard at the age of ten, so as soon as you said black-faced gods last time, I guessed it. ”

Liu Zheng was in a complicated mood and was speechless for a long time.

Luo Jingqiu got back to the point: "If you want to say what kind of gift you want to return him, I can't give any good advice." It's just other dealings, it's your private matter, you have to figure it out for yourself. ”

Before dark, Liu Zheng got into the carriage arranged by Gu Fu and went home. When she arrived at the Qingxi River, Liu Zheng got out of the car first, and the coachman helped her carry the things that her husband gave her back home, and she walked to the vicinity of the Qingxi River to relax. I haven't been here for a while, and a few pink and white lotus flowers have bloomed in the middle of the river, and the lotus leaves are stacked. A boatman was crossing the river with a long pole on his way home.

Liu Zheng walked for a while, saw a familiar figure standing by the bridge, and took a closer look, sure enough, it was Ye, the daughter-in-law of the He family. Liu Zheng stepped forward to greet her, and Ye nodded blankly, with two strings of tears on his face. Liu Zheng asked her with concern what was wrong, why she hadn't gone to their house to sit down again recently, Ye shook her head again and again, and turned around and left after saying that she had to go back to cooking. After walking for two steps, Ye Shi turned around, and stopped talking: "Miss Liu, it's best not to go out alone all the time these days, seeing that it's going to be dark today, it's not safe." Goodbye. ”

Liu Zheng looked at the reflection of the sunset on the river, and realized that he had been wandering around for a while, so he hurried home, afraid that his grandmother would be cranky when she was in a hurry.

When Liu Zheng was walking on the road, he was still thinking about Luo Jingqiu's words, and some long-ago pictures appeared in his mind. At that time, the three of them rode on the wall and looked into the courtyard, and in addition to seeing a black-faced military master, they also saw a small child sitting at a table reading a book...... When the nobles left, they hid in the corner and secretly watched them go out and get into the carriage, and also saw the child who was surrounded by the crowd. She couldn't remember what he looked like at all, but she remembered that he had a round face, always silent, and his sitting and walking postures were different from those of the three wild children, and his gestures were very good-looking.

Song Yan's gestures are also very good-looking. The small figure in the memory gradually overlapped with the shadow of the young man, and Liu Zheng sighed in his heart.

In front of the house, Liu Zheng raised her hand to push the door, but the door was bolted from the inside, she slapped a few times and shouted grandma, the door bolt moved, the door opened, Wang Chucui pulled her in with a solemn face, signaled her to keep quiet, and tied the door again. Liu Zheng turned around in disbelief, but saw Feng Ce with tears in his eyes.

"Why are you here?"

Feng Ce choked up and motioned for her to follow. Liu Zheng followed him into the guest room with heavy steps, and saw the boy curled up in the corner of the bed, covered in blood. Liu Zheng's heart contracted suddenly.

"Miss Liu, I really don't know who to take my master to......" Feng Ce choked up, "Since last night, the master has neither summoned people nor taken the initiative to open the door, I thought he was tired, until noon, I couldn't help but push the door in, only to find that the master fell to the ground, and his heart was inserted into that ......."

Liu Zheng looked in the direction of his finger and saw Song Yan holding a blood-stained silver hairpin in his right hand. Liu Zheng hurriedly asked, "Someone assassinated him?" Who? Haven't you seen a doctor yet? ”

Feng Ce kept shaking his head: "He stabbed it himself, and that hairpin is Mrs. Hou's ......"

Feng Ce felt that he couldn't talk anymore, so he turned his back and wiped his tears: "I went to the doctor as soon as I found out, but the master refused to let outsiders get close, no one refused, not even the two imperial doctors who often saw him before, and he always shouted cold, and he couldn't pour the medicine with his mouth open." He has been smelling blood and seeing blood since he was a child, but it has been a long time since he has reacted so badly. ”

Even when the criminal department tried the case, the most violent reaction was just constant retching, dimming in front of him, and being unable to get up.

Liu Zheng felt that his brain was in chaos, and Feng Ce was still talking: "I know that Ye misses Mrs. Hou, he misses her all day and all night, but I can't take him to see her, once we meet...... Elsewhere, I can only think of the eldest princess's mansion and the Zhang mansion, but they won't have a better way than to summon the imperial doctor. ”

Wang Chucui was so anxious: "Master Jun, what you said, we can't even summon the imperial doctor, I, what can we do?" ”

Feng Ce looked at Liu Zheng with a look of hope: "Miss Liu, can you accompany the master?" Don't do anything! Would you like to shake his hand and talk to him? He's so sad, I don't know what he's sad about, but it's probably a bit of a crux of the problem......

Liu Zheng pursed his lips, and the scene that happened when he took him to the flower room yesterday resurfaced in front of him. He didn't expect what she thought was nothing to be so heavy on him.

Wang Chucui called hot water and brought a medicine box, she didn't know what to do at all, she just felt that Song Yan's curled up on the bed made her sad. She is a mother who has lost two children, and she can't see any children suffering in this world. Feng Ce went out with her and stayed outside the door.

Liu Zheng stood in place for a while, washed it in hot water with a towel handkerchief, sat on the edge of the bed, and gently pushed Song Yan's shoulder.

The young man's eyebrows moved, but there was still no sign of opening.

Liu Zheng folded the towel and recalled Feng Ce's words. Would he have such a big reaction when he smelled the blood? So he really didn't pretend that day, it was really uncomfortable to bump into her......

Liu Zheng went to hold his right wrist, but his arm was so tight that he couldn't hold it at all. She looked at his ten fingers clenching the hairpin again, and he was already so hard that he turned white and stiffened. Liu Zheng gently grinded his wrist bone with his fingertips, and called softly: "Master Song, wake up." ”

Song Yan didn't react.

Liu Zheng thought for a while and called him: "Song Yan? ”

Still no response.

Liu Zheng recalled his words when they first met. He said that she didn't want to be too involved with them, so she didn't want her to always call him official, and wanted to hear her call him by his name or nickname. His cousin...... Liu Zheng can't remember clearly, but the nickname still vaguely remembers.

Liu Zheng stroked his tense wrist bone with one hand, and gently patted his arm with the other: "...... Amo? ”

His long eyelashes trembled violently, and Liu Zheng suddenly gained confidence and pushed him slightly: "Ah Mo, Ah Mo, wake up." ”

Song Yan moved his dry and flaky lips, and shouted something in his breath. Liu Zheng leaned closer, and heard nothing but his dull and sluggish breathing.

Liu Zheng was afraid that he would lose consciousness if he kept holding the hairpin so tightly that his hands would be unconscious, so while calling him Amo, he rubbed his right hand with a hot water towel and washed away the blood stains on the hairpin and between his fingers. Liu Zheng carefully plucked his fingers and pulled out the hairpin little by little. The silver hairpin was soft and had been deformed by his hand. The hairpin tip is very bald, and at a glance, you can tell that it has been rubbed countless times.

Liu Zheng wrapped the hairpin with a cloth and put it aside, looked at Song Yan's chest worriedly, raised his eyes again, and suddenly met the young man's dark and bright eyes. Liu Zheng breathed slightly, he blinked slowly, and looked at her silently, with a little dazed in his eyes, as if thinking about who she was.

Liu Zheng smiled: "You're awake." ”

Song Yan was still blinking, with light in his eyes, and hugged himself helplessly: "It's so cold." ”

Liu Zheng leaned over to touch his forehead, he subconsciously wanted to hide, and after feeling the temperature of her fingertips, he didn't hide again, and looked at her obediently. As soon as she moved, his swarthy pupils also turned.

It seems to be a little hot. Liu Zheng wanted to open the door and let Feng Ce come in to take care of him, but as soon as he took a step, his wrist was grabbed by him.

"Amo is so cold, don't go."

"I'll get you some medicine......"

"Don't drink the medicine." Song Yan frowned painfully, tightened his strength, he must pull her back, the tails of his eyes became redder and redder, and he said over and over again: "Don't drink, don't drink......"

Liu Zheng had no choice but to sit back and wash a hot water towel to cover his forehead. He tried to raise his eyes to see what she had put on his head, but he couldn't see anything. He looked at her again, trying to pull her into his arms. She refused to move, and the tip of his nose was red: "Why don't you want to hug me?" ”

Liu Zheng was about to break free of his hand, but he asked so suddenly that he forgot to exert his strength. She looked away, telling herself that she couldn't be honest with a patient, who seemed a little delirious now.

Song Yan kept pulling her, and finally raised his other hand and grabbed her waist without saying a word, and gently hugged her into his arms. Liu Zheng was forced to press against his chest, and a pounding heartbeat was heard.

His face was pressed against hers, and Liu Zheng wanted to dodge, but he carefully stroked the back of her head and murmured, "It hurts......"

Liu Zheng thought of the wound on his back, and immediately held his chest and remembered, the young man snorted, still refusing to let go of his arms. Liu Zheng lowered his head, only to find that his palm was pressed against the wound on his left chest, and his fingertips were already a little wet and sticky. She quickly removed her hand and instead held his shoulder, trying to help him sit up: "You still hold me ...... hurt"

He was too heavy, and if he didn't think about it, she wouldn't be able to pick him up at all.

Song Yan didn't let go of her arms, and her eyes were misty, which looked more and more crystal clear in the dim light. He asked pitifully, "Don't hate me, okay." ”

She nudged him, "Do you know who I am?" ”

"Zheng, you are Zhengzheng." Song Yan looked at her, "Don't hate me." ”

Liu Zheng didn't know what to say, and said for a while: "I don't hate you, can you sit up by yourself?" ”

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts. I can't sit up. Song Yan was still holding her arm, wanting to hug her arm and curl up again, "I'm going to die, I can't get up again." ”

Liu Zheng was helpless, thinking that he was playing a scoundrel. After a while, seeing that his face was really not good, Liu Zheng softened his voice and asked, "Are you hungry?" ”

Song Yan rubbed her soft and jade-like wrist greedily with her face: "I'll give it to you, I'll give it to you." Eat me. ”

What is this...... She tugged at him, "Get up." ”

Song Yan still couldn't get up, his lips were bloodless, and his pink fingertips were also white. It wasn't long before he closed his eyes again, frowning in pain and muttering inaudible words in his mouth. Liu Zheng wondered if he was burning his brain with a fever, so he should find a doctor, what could she do. But he was still holding her tightly in his sleep, and she couldn't push it away. Liu Zheng approached him again and heard him say intermittently, "Mother...... Eat Amo lightly, lightly ......"

Liu Zheng was shocked in his heart, and remembered the words he heard in the Gu Mansion today. How is Mrs. Hou crazy, what kind of madness? Isn't it because you want to eat people......

Considering the wound on his chest and back, Liu Zheng couldn't bear to see him lying like this, so he tried to pull his shoulders, first lifted his upper body a little, put it on his arm, and quickly put the big pillow behind him. He was tall, with broad shoulders, and he didn't know what he ate every day, but he looked thin but very heavy, and Liu Zheng's face was about to bury in his chest, and he tried hard to lift his chin to barely reach his shoulders. Fortunately, her arms are strong, otherwise she is afraid that she will be crushed.

She wanted to put him on the pillow and lean on it, but the young man in her arms snorted twice and hugged her tightly, leaning on her as if he was cold: "Don't want me, Zheng." ”

He was cold, but the zither was too hot, and the sweat was dripping down on a hot day. She didn't want to hold him anymore and pushed him out: "If you don't let go of me, how can I give you medicine?" ”

She patted him on the face: "Amo, you are obedient." ”

Song Yan stiffened and slowly let go. He looked at her with some uncertainty with his eyes half-opened, looking even weaker than before.

Liu Zheng wanted to ask his grandmother to come in to help, but looking at the blood stains on his body, he felt that the two of them were quite embarrassed at this moment. She endured it and decided to help him deal with the wound on his chest first, so as not to continue to bleed, and let Feng Ce come with his back.

Liu Zheng groped down for his belt, and after touching it a few times, his fingertips suddenly burned, he frowned and snorted complainingly, Liu Zheng was stunned, and immediately removed his hand and stepped back, picked up the towel and wiped his hand several times.